According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales. Every day more than 15 million people earn their keep by persuading someone else to make a purchase. But dig deeper and a startling truth emerges: Yes, one in nine Americans works in sales. But so do the other eight. Whether we’re employees pitching colleagues on a new idea, entrepreneurs enticing funders to invest, or parents and teachers cajoling children to study, we spend our days trying to move others.

4 out of 5 stars

Great content, perhaps better in print

By
Cari Rich
on
07-26-15

Influence

Science and Practice, ePub, 5th Edition

By:
Robert B. Cialdini

Narrated by:
Lloyd James

Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,325

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,820

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,796

Widely used in classes, as well as sold to people operating successfully in the business world, the eagerly awaited revision of
Influence reminds the listener of the power of persuasion. Cialdini organizes compliance techniques into six categories based on psychological principles that direct human behavior: reciprocation, consistency, social proof, liking, authority, and scarcity.

5 out of 5 stars

This book will change the way you see the world.

By
Dubito Ergo Sum
on
02-18-15

Made to Stick

By:
Chip Heath,
Dan Heath

Narrated by:
Charles Kahlenberg

Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,937

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,095

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,094

Mark Twain once observed, "A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on." His observation rings true: urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas (business people, teachers, politicians, journalists, and others) struggle to make their ideas "stick". In this indispensable guide, we discover that sticky messages of all kinds draw their power from the same six traits.

5 out of 5 stars

Even Better The Second Time

By
Jeremy
on
09-05-09

Peak Performance

Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success

By:
Brad Stulberg,
Steve Magness

Narrated by:
Christopher Lane

Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
5,087

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,411

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,368

The first book of its kind,
Peak Performance combines the inspiring stories of top performers across a range of capabilities - from athletic, to intellectual, to artistic - with the latest scientific insights into the cognitive and neurochemical factors that drive performance in all domains. In doing so,
Peak Performance uncovers new linkages that hold promise as performance enhancers but have been overlooked in our traditionally-siloed ways of thinking.

4 out of 5 stars

Good, but

By
Luke
on
06-09-18

Find Your Why

A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team

By:
Simon Sinek,
David Mead,
Peter Docker

Narrated by:
Stephen Shedletzky,
Simon Sinek

Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
944

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
829

Story

4 out of 5 stars
833

Start with Why has led millions of listeners to rethink everything they do in their personal lives, their careers, and their organizations. Now, Find Your Why picks up where Start with Why left off. It tells you how to apply Simon Sinek's powerful insights so you can find more inspiration at work - and, in turn, inspire those around you. Whether you've just started your first job, are leading a team, or are CEO of your own company, the exercises in this audiobook will guide you along a path to long-term success and fulfillment - for both you and your colleagues.

1 out of 5 stars

DO NOT GET THE AUDIO BOOK GET THE BOOK BOOK

By
Jeff & Erin Youngren
on
12-03-17

The Willpower Instinct

How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It

By:
Kelly McGonigal Ph.D.

Narrated by:
Walter Dixon

Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
7,801

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
6,680

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
6,580

Based on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal's wildly popular course
The Science of Willpower,The Willpower Instinct is the first book to explain the new science of self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, happiness, and productivity. Informed by the latest research and combining cutting-edge insights from psychology, economics, neuroscience, and medicine,
The Willpower Instinct explains exactly what willpower is, how it works, and why it matters.

4 out of 5 stars

Research based guide to improve willpower

By
Neuron
on
05-27-13

To Sell Is Human

The Surprising Truth about Moving Others

By:
Daniel H. Pink

Narrated by:
Daniel H. Pink

Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,323

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,975

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,968

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales. Every day more than 15 million people earn their keep by persuading someone else to make a purchase. But dig deeper and a startling truth emerges: Yes, one in nine Americans works in sales. But so do the other eight. Whether we’re employees pitching colleagues on a new idea, entrepreneurs enticing funders to invest, or parents and teachers cajoling children to study, we spend our days trying to move others.

4 out of 5 stars

Great content, perhaps better in print

By
Cari Rich
on
07-26-15

Influence

Science and Practice, ePub, 5th Edition

By:
Robert B. Cialdini

Narrated by:
Lloyd James

Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,325

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,820

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,796

Widely used in classes, as well as sold to people operating successfully in the business world, the eagerly awaited revision of
Influence reminds the listener of the power of persuasion. Cialdini organizes compliance techniques into six categories based on psychological principles that direct human behavior: reciprocation, consistency, social proof, liking, authority, and scarcity.

5 out of 5 stars

This book will change the way you see the world.

By
Dubito Ergo Sum
on
02-18-15

Made to Stick

By:
Chip Heath,
Dan Heath

Narrated by:
Charles Kahlenberg

Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,937

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,095

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,094

Mark Twain once observed, "A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on." His observation rings true: urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas (business people, teachers, politicians, journalists, and others) struggle to make their ideas "stick". In this indispensable guide, we discover that sticky messages of all kinds draw their power from the same six traits.

5 out of 5 stars

Even Better The Second Time

By
Jeremy
on
09-05-09

Peak Performance

Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success

By:
Brad Stulberg,
Steve Magness

Narrated by:
Christopher Lane

Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
5,087

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,411

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,368

The first book of its kind,
Peak Performance combines the inspiring stories of top performers across a range of capabilities - from athletic, to intellectual, to artistic - with the latest scientific insights into the cognitive and neurochemical factors that drive performance in all domains. In doing so,
Peak Performance uncovers new linkages that hold promise as performance enhancers but have been overlooked in our traditionally-siloed ways of thinking.

4 out of 5 stars

Good, but

By
Luke
on
06-09-18

Find Your Why

A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team

By:
Simon Sinek,
David Mead,
Peter Docker

Narrated by:
Stephen Shedletzky,
Simon Sinek

Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
944

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
829

Story

4 out of 5 stars
833

Start with Why has led millions of listeners to rethink everything they do in their personal lives, their careers, and their organizations. Now, Find Your Why picks up where Start with Why left off. It tells you how to apply Simon Sinek's powerful insights so you can find more inspiration at work - and, in turn, inspire those around you. Whether you've just started your first job, are leading a team, or are CEO of your own company, the exercises in this audiobook will guide you along a path to long-term success and fulfillment - for both you and your colleagues.

1 out of 5 stars

DO NOT GET THE AUDIO BOOK GET THE BOOK BOOK

By
Jeff & Erin Youngren
on
12-03-17

The Willpower Instinct

How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It

By:
Kelly McGonigal Ph.D.

Narrated by:
Walter Dixon

Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
7,801

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
6,680

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
6,580

Based on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal's wildly popular course
The Science of Willpower,The Willpower Instinct is the first book to explain the new science of self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, happiness, and productivity. Informed by the latest research and combining cutting-edge insights from psychology, economics, neuroscience, and medicine,
The Willpower Instinct explains exactly what willpower is, how it works, and why it matters.

4 out of 5 stars

Research based guide to improve willpower

By
Neuron
on
05-27-13

The Charisma Myth

How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism

By:
Olivia Fox Cabane

Narrated by:
Lisa Cordileione

Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,125

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
3,498

Story

4 out of 5 stars
3,470

What if charisma could be taught? For the first time, science and technology have taken charisma apart, figured it out and turned it into an applied science: In controlled laboratory experiments, researchers could raise or lower people's level of charisma as if they were turning a dial. What you'll find here is practical magic: unique knowledge, drawn from a variety of sciences, revealing what charisma really is and how it works. You'll get both the insights and the techniques you need to apply this knowledge. The world will become your lab, and every person you meet, a chance to experiment.

5 out of 5 stars

An excellent treatment of a fascinating topic.

By
Gare&Sophia
on
12-05-12

Popular

The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World

By:
Mitch Prinstein

Narrated by:
Mitch Prinstein

Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
211

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
196

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
195

No matter how old you are, there's a good chance that the word
popular immediately transports you back to your teenage years. Most of us can easily recall the adolescent social cliques, the high school pecking order, and which of our peers stood out as the most or the least popular teens we knew. Even as adults we all still remember exactly where we stood in the high school social hierarchy, and the powerful emotions associated with our status persist decades later. This may be for good reason.

5 out of 5 stars

Genius Book that will Redefine View of Popularity

By
AmazonJoe
on
06-06-17

The Coaching Habit

Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

By:
Michael Bungay Stanier

Narrated by:
Daniel Maté

Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
2,775

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,398

Story

4 out of 5 stars
2,368

In Michael Bungay Stanier's
The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less hard and have more impact. Drawing on years of experience training more than 10,000 busy managers from around the globe in practical, everyday coaching skills, Bungay Stanier reveals how to unlock your peoples' potential. He unpacks seven essential coaching questions to demonstrate how - by saying less and asking more - you can develop coaching methods that produce great results.

5 out of 5 stars

practical application, not theoretical

By
Scott
on
08-26-16

The Innovators

How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

By:
Walter Isaacson

Narrated by:
Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
5,542

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,858

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,846

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs,
The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail?

4 out of 5 stars

With Atlantean Shoulders, Fit to Bear

By
W Perry Hall
on
10-06-15

Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills

By:
Steven Novella,
The Great Courses

Narrated by:
Steven Novella

Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins

Original Recording

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
5,560

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,918

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,835

No skill is more important in today's world than being able to think about, understand, and act on information in an effective and responsible way. What's more, at no point in human history have we had access to so much information, with such relative ease, as we do in the 21st century. But because misinformation out there has increased as well, critical thinking is more important than ever. These 24 rewarding lectures equip you with the knowledge and techniques you need to become a savvier, sharper critical thinker in your professional and personal life.

3 out of 5 stars

Same Material Different Title

By
rkeinc
on
09-21-14

The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth

Live Them and Reach Your Potential

By:
John C. Maxwell

Narrated by:
John C. Maxwell

Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,936

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,525

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,500

Are there tried and true principles that are always certain to help a person grow? John Maxwell says the answer is yes. He has been passionate about personal development for over 50 years, and for the first time, he teaches everything he has gleaned about what it takes to reach our potential. In the way that only he can communicate, John teaches The Law of the Mirror: You Must See Value in Yourself to Add Value to Yourself, The Law of Awareness: You Must Know Yourself to Grow Yourself, and much more.

5 out of 5 stars

What's Your Growth Plan?

By
Kimberly
on
10-14-12

Algorithms to Live By

The Computer Science of Human Decisions

By:
Brian Christian,
Tom Griffiths

Narrated by:
Brian Christian

Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
10,077

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
8,740

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
8,667

All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of new activities and familiar favorites is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not: computers, too, face the same constraints, so computer scientists have been grappling with their version of such problems for decades.

5 out of 5 stars

Not Just Computer Science

By
M
on
10-10-16

High Performance Habits

How Extraordinary People Become That Way

By:
Brendon Burchard

Narrated by:
Brendon Burchard

Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,145

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,719

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,704

After extensive original research and a decade as the world's highest-paid performance coach, Brendon Burchard finally reveals the most effective habits for reaching long-term success. Based on one of the largest surveys ever conducted on high performers, it turns out that just six habits move the needle the most in helping you succeed. Adopt these six habits and you win. Neglect them and life is a never-ending struggle. We all want to be high performing in every area of our lives. But how?

3 out of 5 stars

One Long Marketing Pitch

By
Chris
on
11-12-17

Just Listen

Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone

By:
Mark Goulston

Narrated by:
Walter Dixon

Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,374

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,977

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,965

You’ve got a business colleague who’s hostile...a client who’s furious...a staffer who’s deeply cynical—how do you get people to do what you want in tough situations like these? In
Just Listen, veteran psychiatrist and business coach Mark Goulston reveals the secret to how to get through to anyone, even when productive communication seems impossible.“Here's the challenge,” Mark says.

3 out of 5 stars

Not for everyone

By
Joseph
on
02-13-12

The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

By:
Josh Kaufman

Narrated by:
Josh Kaufman

Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,918

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,203

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,173

Josh Kaufman founded PersonalMBA.com as an alternative to the business school boondoggle. His blog has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the best business books and most powerful business concepts of all time. Now, he shares the essentials of entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, negotiation, operations, productivity, systems design, and much more, in one comprehensive volume.
The Personal MBA distills the most valuable business lessons into simple, memorable mental models that can be applied to real-world challenges.

5 out of 5 stars

Not an MBA, But A Damn Decent Experience.

By
Jonny
on
01-20-13

Developing the Leader Within You 2.0

By:
John C. Maxwell

Narrated by:
John C. Maxwell

Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
549

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
479

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
472

In this thoroughly revised and updated 25th-anniversary edition of his now-classic work, John C. Maxwell reveals how to develop the vision, value, influence, and motivation required of successful leaders. This new edition updates the principles for transformative leadership that Maxwell has used as a leader for more than 40 years. No matter what arena you are called to - family, church, business, nonprofit - the principles Maxwell shares will positively impact your own life and the lives of those around you.

5 out of 5 stars

A must have for any level leader.

By
Nick T
on
02-08-18

Relentless

From Good to Great to Unstoppable

By:
Tim S. Grover

Narrated by:
Sean Pratt

Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
8,495

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
7,465

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
7,427

Direct, blunt, and brutally honest, Tim Grover breaks down what it takes to be unstoppable: You keep going when everyone else is giving up, you thrive under pressure, you never let your emotions make you weak. In "The Relentless 13", he details the essential traits shared by the most intense competitors and achievers in sports, business, and all walks of life.

5 out of 5 stars

The book is legit

By
James
on
04-28-18

Publisher's Summary

Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work, at school, at home. It's wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm-shattering book, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does - and how that affects every aspect of our lives. He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it's precisely the wrong way to motivate people for today's challenges. In Drive, he reveals the three elements of true motivation:

Autonomy - the desire to direct our own lives

Mastery - the urge to get better and better at something that matters

Purpose- the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves

Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation and introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are pointing a bold way forward.

Drive is bursting with big ideas-- the rare book that will change how you think and transform how you live.

Critic Reviews

"Pink's analysis - and new model - of motivation offers tremendous insight into our deepest nature." (
Publishers Weekly)
"Drive is the rare book that will get you to think and inspire you to act. Pink makes a strong, science-based case for rethinking motivation--and then provides the tools you need to transform your life." (Dr. Mehmet Oz, co-author of
YOU: The Owners Manual)

Story

Not as good as A Whole New Mind

I usually love Daniel Pink's work, but this was tired and repetitive. I find he is insightful and typically puts an original twist on common wisdom. He missed the mark on this one. He used the same formula of his past successes but this one felt like a 50-100 page concept stretched out into a 200 pager to keep publishers happy. I would put the concepts in A Whole New Mind on par with the best works of Malcom Gladwell, Steven Levitt and Nassim Nicholas Taleb. This is recycled, repetitive and doesn't come close to his best.

OK, but could have been a lot better

Daniel Pink makes a reasonable case for a more humane business environment. The keystone of his approach is Autonomy: people need autonomy (the ability to choose what they do, when they do it, how they do it, and who they do it with); and the more they have, the more productive they can be. More importantly, the usual approach of giving bonuses and other rewards for meeting prescribed goals can actually undermine autonomy, and thus productivity, over the long term. Pink cites a number of ingenious experiments that have demonstrated the negative effect of rewards in many situations.

It's not all about autonomy, though. According to Pink, people also need Mastery and Purpose. In other words, they like to get better at doing something that matters. Much of Pink's book is an exploration of ways that people have re-engineered work environments to make those needs easier to meet.

He closes the book with a long chapter on recommendations for change; but as in most books of this type, they are more pep talk than blueprint. Pink describes management in general as being an outmoded technology, but the successes he describes only happened because management gave the new approach their full support.

One aspect of the book I found particularly puzzling. Much of his argument is based on the work of psychologists Edward Deci and Robert Ryan, who propose three basic human needs: autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Mastery is a bit like competence; but what happened to relatedness? It seems to me that could have as big an impact on productivity as anything else.

Repetitive

Like many books with a good idea or message, they are relatively simple. This, like many other books, repeats the main points ad nauseum. If you are in charge of a creative group of people, this is required information. If not, it's interesting for the first hour or two.

Thought provoking

The author divides motivation into 3 versions... 1.0 is physical (food & sex), 2.0 is extrinsic Pavlov and money stuff, and 3.0 is the top of Maslow's triangle and a heaping helping from the book Flow. I thought the book read well, and put a fresh coat of paint on some older info that we shouldn't ignore.

Very interesting topic

This is an interesting topic and a well written synopsis of the science of motivation. If you are a leader in a working company who has had to motivate people in the past, this book will mostly confirm what you already know. Monetary and other extrensic incentives don't work and they can be very detrimental. That in itself makes it valuable as a work of literature. There are a lot of people in high levels of leadership who may actually need a book like this to tell them what they should already know by looking at the effects of the systems they have created.

I wouldn't call this book a must read or a game changer however. It is saying what a LOT of literature in the business world is currently saying. What it does do is organize what is very good science behind ideas that are being propogated in many other books. There are a few other books I would recommend ahead of this one but if you are well read in business and leadership texts, this is definitely not one you want to skip.

Highly Recommended!!!

This book filters down all the empirical reseach into a very readable format.

What did you like best about this story?

I like how Pink proves that Corporate America is missing the point when it comes to motivating employees.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Every Manager/Leader needs to listen to this book before they draft a compensation plan that makes them look good, in the eyes of their management, but defeats the overall purpose of motivating their staff.

Fantastic

This was an excellent book which helped me understand how I can greatly improve my personal and professional life. I read "Flow" many years ago and this is the perfect compliment to that book. "Drive" is narriated by the author who does an excellent job of delivering a clear and understandable message of what makes people succeed (or fail). I highly recommend "Drive".

Many valid ideas

Mr Pink's criticisms of traditional methods of motivation are entertaining and valid. Many of the ideas put forward are interesting and worthy of consideration.
However, while he advocates allowing employees more autonomy and freedom to decide things for themselves, he allows the reader less and less. He repeats fairly interesting ideas over and over, lecturing us about their value until one gets sick of them, particularly generalizing techniques that might work well for software developers, but few other businesses.
Instead of allowing the reader the decide for himself and ponder how he or she might incorporate some part of these ideas into his or her own business, he ends up hectoring us over and over about "FedEx days", "Flow" and "I-type" people.
It is ironic that, just as he insists we must abandon our rigid 9 to 5 mentality, he is shoe-horning everything into the constraining format of a book with a strong thesis he thinks he can sell.
It's a pity he doesn't have the courage to follow his own advice.

great book

This book started out fairly slowly, but then it was fantastic with the thoughts and ideas it presented and the research that backs them up. It confirmed what I saw as a Recognition Coordinator for a major corporation. The carrot approach can create a lot of problems if not done correctly. I saw cheating, people being demotivated when there wasn't a contest on, etc. What I like most about this book were the ideas on how to encourage "Drive". I am going to buy the physical book for this to keep as a reference.

The Surprising Truth About Drive

A thoroughly enjoyable read. The themes were repeated in such away that I could absorbed them even in the audio format. I've been encouraging others to read the book by listing the three factors of drive. This tells me that the material was presented to that I could actually benefit from it. In some ways the book was too long in there there wasn't new material added when the existing topics were covered. I wholeheartedly recommend the book to managers, even parents!